“I think it’s an outrage. I mean, people are coming down there to pay their respects to the people that died that day. They shouldn’t have to pay, you can’t charge to get into a cemetery and I think they’re making this a revenue-generating tourist attraction,” Jim Riches told WCBS 880’s Jim Smith last month.

He said no one should have to pay a fee to go to the memorial and say a prayer for his son and the nearly 3,000 others lost in the terror attacks.

The 9/11 Foundation said the $2 fee helps support the operational needs of the memorial and the not-yet-completed museum, which together, the foundation said will cost $700 million.

The foundation added that the fee eventually will be eliminated, since once construction is finished, advance passes will no longer be needed. And the fee does not apply to 9/11 families.

Questions of funding the memorial and museum are not new. Construction of the museum actually came to a halt for months last year when the Port Authority and the 9/11 Foundation battled over who would pay how much.